The Last Great American Picture Show
Title | The Last Great American Picture Show PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Horwath |
Publisher | Amsterdam University Press |
Total Pages | 395 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9053566317 |
This publication is a major evaluation of the 1970s American cinema, including cult film directors such as Bogdanovich Altman and Peckinpah.
The Last Silent Picture Show
Title | The Last Silent Picture Show PDF eBook |
Author | William M. Drew |
Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | 270 |
Release | 2010-08-27 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0810876817 |
This book details the fate of an entire art form—the silent cinema—in the United States during the 1930s and how it managed to survive the onslaught of sound.
The Great American Trailer Park Musical
Title | The Great American Trailer Park Musical PDF eBook |
Author | Betsy Kelso |
Publisher | Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
Total Pages | 76 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780822221371 |
THE STORY: There's a new tenant at Armadillo Acres--and she's wreaking havoc all over Florida's most exclusive trailer park. When Pippi, the stripper on the run, comes between the Dr. Phil-loving, agoraphobic Jeannie and her tollbooth collector husb
Last Lecture
Title | Last Lecture PDF eBook |
Author | Perfection Learning Corporation |
Publisher | Turtleback |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781663608192 |
European Cinema
Title | European Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Elsaesser |
Publisher | Amsterdam University Press |
Total Pages | 567 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9053565949 |
'European Cinema in Crisis' examines the conflicting terminologies that have dominated the discussion of the future of European film-making. It takes a fresh look at the ideological agendas, from 'avante-garde cinema' to the high/low culture debate and the fate of popular European cinema.
Pictures at a Revolution
Title | Pictures at a Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Harris |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 522 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781594201523 |
Documents the cultural revolution behind the making of 1967's five Best Picture-nominated films, including Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Graduate, Doctor Doolittle, In the Heat of the Night, and Bonnie and Clyde, in an account that discusses how the movies reflected period beliefs about race, violence, and identity. 40,000 first printing.
The Last American Man
Title | The Last American Man PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Gilbert |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 2009-08-17 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1408806878 |
_____________ 'It is almost impossible not to fall under the spell of Eustace Conway ... his accomplishments, his joy and vigor, seem almost miraculous' - New York Times Review of Books 'Gilbert takes a bright-eyed bead on Eustace, hitting him square with a witty modernist appraisal of folkloric American masculinity' - The Times 'Conversational, enthusiastic, funny and sharp, the energy of The Last American Man never ebbs' - New Statesman _____________ A fascinating, intimate portrait of an endlessly complicated man: a visionary, a narcissist, a brilliant but flawed modern hero At the age of seventeen, Eustace Conway ditched the comforts of his suburban existence to escape to the wild. Away from the crushing disapproval of his father, he lived alone in a teepee in the mountains. Everything he needed he built, grew or killed. He made his clothes from deer he killed and skinned before using their sinew as sewing thread. But he didn't stop there. In the years that followed, he stopped at nothing in pursuit of bigger, bolder challenges. He travelled the Mississippi in a handmade wooden canoe; he walked the two-thousand-mile Appalachian Trail; he hiked across the German Alps in trainers; he scaled cliffs in New Zealand. One Christmas, he finished dinner with his family and promptly upped and left - to ride his horse across America. From South Carolina to the Pacific, with his little brother in tow, they dodged cars on the highways, ate road kill and slept on the hard ground. Now, more than twenty years on, Eustace is still in the mountains, residing in a thousand-acre forest where he teaches survival skills and attempts to instil in people a deeper appreciation of nature. But over time he has had to reconcile his ambitious dreams with the sobering realities of modernity. Told with Elizabeth Gilbert's trademark wit and spirit, The Last American Man is an unforgettable adventure story of an irrepressible life lived to the extreme. The Last American Man is a New York Times Notable Book and National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist.